Conformational similarity among amino acid residues: 1. Analysis of protein crystal structure data |
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Authors: | AS Kolaskar V Ramabrahman |
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Institution: | School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad — 500 001 India |
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Abstract: | The probability distribution in the (?,ψ)-plane obtained for each amino acid residue from cyrstal structure data of globular proteins is compared. This has shown amino acid residues. Pro and Gly to be conformationally unique. Conformational similarity in the (?,ψ)-plane of amino acid reced does not necessarily mean that they will have the same chemical or biochemical properties or similar secondary structures. A set of amino acid residues are given which can adopt the conformations of other amino acid residues without much difficulty either in the whole (?,ψ)-plane or in regions, where the observed conformations are maximum. |
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